Author: Oasis Homestead

Thanks so much for my wine bottle donations ladies. I just need about 20 more if anyone else can help me.

To remind y’all, we are not promoting alcoholic beverages or anything, this collection of long-necked bottles is to be able to set up a ring toss game for our Easter Day kids event.

We will also have 3 legged races, bean bag toss, treasure hunts, egg hunt, children’s Easter Day acoustic music, flower potting craft, coloring, other games, and crafts.

Most games can still be played whether it rains or not as we can move them inside. We will be serving a humble, home cooking lunch with our own farm-raised beef burgers, purple hull peas, and other stuff we raise.

This event is scheduled for 4/17/22 from 10am- 2pm. Bring your young children and your Easter baskets. All parents-

Ps… Easter-related treasures and plastic egg contents are not candy-related. Small toy parts could cause a choking hazard. Handling must be supervised by a parent or guardian. Let’s keep our precious babies safe

The games are free, though if you like, you could donate any amount that seems right. Certain other things will cost money such as the food.

Who is growing their own garden this year in Tate county? If you plan to grow your own veggies, have some fruit trees, herbs, berries, etc, or like to do some canning at home and might have some extra produce this year, let me know.

If you grew it right here locally and you’ve got too much for your friends and family, I’d be happy to buy it from you and let the community get it from my store. I do my best to grow all that we can for the needs of our family, our workers and their families, our friends and neighbors plus as much as I can for our customers. Unfortunately, I can’t grow EVERYTHING, it’s just not humanly possible. Lol I do buy some fruits like lemons, bananas, oranges, and such from growers out of our area cuz we can’t really grow that stuff here anyway but our families still like to enjoy them. So if you or someone you know here locally ends up with too many squash or maters, or peppers or something else not listed here, we’d appreciate it! Or maybe they even want to help me get some canning done, just have them message me.

We gotta network together to keep our families’ needs met these days yall. If you know a family in need please have them contact me, we will be glad to offer them free food as we are able to fill their bellies. Let’s come together as a real, loving community y’all. Let me know where we can help

We are working on our road frontage signs y’all. Going for higher visibility, uniformity and creativity. We almost have the new store hours sign finished and many more to come.

We have started getting our seedlings going in the hoop house. If the field mice would stop chewing up our seeds and the baby plants out in the field, we might get somewhere! Lol sweet corn is going in the ground soon y’all. I hope you’re getting excited just like us!

Woop woop! Finally receiving my Pepsi product order from December!! I’m not complaining but I do sure hope we all can get back to normal as soon as possible. Only 3 shipments in a year makes it hard to keep customers happy. I know the whole country, even the world has been struggling to recuperate. Big thanks to my awesome local delivery driver. I’ve got purple hull peas and sweet corn in the freezer from November harvest I need to sell. Peas are usually $6 a pound, buy 10 pounds for $45. Transfer from my freezer to yours for a great price! Cut off sweet corn is usually $5 a pound. Buy 10 pounds for $35. Frozen ears of corn usually $10, get em 3 bags for $20Come see me today or tomorrow 10-3 for sale prices. Don’t forget to ask about eggs, beef, flour, garden seeds, hay, straw, animal feed, raw milk, and much more….

BEEF CUSTOMER UPDATE: We are picking up from the butcher today and will be able to start coordinating meat package pick ups by tomorrow. Please message me if you will be able to pay/pick up tomorrow. I will be at the store 10-3 and since the store will be open, I can set appointments for pick ups. Send me a FB message or text directly to my phone to make appointments or if you have any questions. See you soon!

I’ll be at the house playing nurse to sick babies and Richard. If you need anything just message me and I’ll get someone to help you. Happy wet Friday

Watch the video to see my two lovely milk cows

Hey y’all- we plan to host an Easter Day fun event at the store this year.

We will have Easter egg hunt, bean bag toss, 3 legged races, ring toss, bubble blowing, treasure hunts, spring planting and crafts!

This event will be on the 17th and there will be a meal as well. In order to prepare for this event I’m asking for donations of clean empty wine bottles (I need tall bottles with long necks) for the ring toss. Could use about 30-40 and also any little Easter baskets or pails you don’t need anymore to give to the kids who show up without one.

If anyone wants to volunteer to be the Easter bunny, let me know!

Would love to have some folks who like to play acoustic music and singing during the event, anyone want to set up a picture booth and/or face painting for the kids? You have an idea? Let me know thanks!

Hey y’all- the roads are covered in frozen rain over by us. I’m not opening the store today. Message me if you need something and BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!!

Our free-range chickens raised on weeds, grass, bugs and NON-GMO grains/seeds we grow ourselves make an amazingly tasty and healthy chicken noodle soup. Used store-bought noodles this time but often I make my own. Carrots, celery, onions, garlic, sea salt, thyme, parsley, red pepper…. So tasty!

I will be opening the store a little late this morning. We are adding a new bathroom for the employees and while the water is cut off, I’m gonna wait a little to open. Hopefully, at about 11am. Call first if you wanna come see me so you don’t waste a trip.

I’m putting together the last of this butchers beef sampler packs, 1 chevon pack and 2 pork sampler packs. We will be taking orders for the next beef butcher date estimating middle to end of March, depending on when the butcher can work us in.

Harvesting dry, green pine needles for upcoming projects while I’m at the store today. 10-3 also tomorrow 10-3

As promised, I’m here with some updates on my lovely heifers’ new shotgun wedding husband… Such a handsome boy he is. Let me tell you how their courting has gone so far. Bella is my Jersey heifer and Sophia is my Dexter heifer.

On the first day of moving my girls to the house, it was kinda nerve-wracking for them since the last time they’ve been in a vehicle at all was when they were 8 weeks old. They did amazingly well given the fear they had. We put them in a small paddock area with water, hay, feeders, and shelter. This paddock is in between 2 others groups, on one side there are full-grown heifers, and on the other side, we have weaned calves. My girls have never been around any other calves since 8 weeks of age.

We made sure to give them some shots so they wouldn’t catch something and get sick, and unfortunately, we had to dull their horns cuz none of the others have any horns. Can’t risk injuries. We let them get used to their new surrounding for the first day and just relax.

Our new bull just so happened to be in with the weaned calves and wouldn’t you know, about 2 hours after the girls were exploring their new pen he came to introduce himself through the fence. Sophia was happy to go meet him but Bella wasn’t having any of it….. yet!

By the middle of the day, Mister Handsome had found his way right inside the girls’ pen and was whispering sweet nothings into Sophia’s ear. Boy was she loving all that attention. Next, I observed the two of them taking a leisurely sunset stroll around the perimeter of the pen.

Just as the sun began to set, the heifers from the other adjacent fence came over to investigate. The big fat freezer beefs had more to say to Mister Handsome than the girls did, and they proceeded to bow heads and make snuffing noises at each other. By nightfall, it was clear there would be no more arguing and all was calm in the bovine world.

The following morning, as the roosters crowed, the doelings nayed for attention, and the dogs happily chomped on their food, I caught a glimpse of Mister Handsome sitting alongside Bella while he gingerly licked a boo-boo on her side. The two sat close enough together I doubt you’d find room to slide a piece of paper between em.

As of today, the three are casually munching on feed and hay together as if they’ve known each other their whole lives. I can’t wait to see what tomorrow will bring and I’ll be keeping y’all updated as we go along on this journey together.

Oh my! We found a handsome young bull from TN and got him to the farm the other day. We moved my heifers to the house this evening. Tomorrow they’ll be having a shotgun wedding cuz both my girls are READY, if you know what I mean . Pictures to come!